Remove padding to the left of bullet lists

[Antonio Nunes]

Does anyone know how to remove or reduce the left padding on a bullet list?

[Julian Smart]

Hi Antonio,

The indent between the bullet and the text is approximately the difference between the "Left indent" and "Left indent (first line)" in the "List Style/Spacing" tab of the style formatting dialog.

However, I could never make custom list indentation work with Kindle - it always added too much space - so for Kindle configurations, the configuration option "Use default list indentation" is checked, causing the custom spacing to be ignored.

Regards,

Julian

On 10/09/2025 00:06, Antonio Nunes wrote:

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[Antonio Nunes]

Thanks for the info. But I was referring at the space between the left margin and the bullet. I set the  "Left indent" on the list style, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on Adobe Digital Editions. Maybe it doesn't work for that application?

[Antonio Nunes]

That's good info, but not exactly what I was looking for. I want to reduce the spacing to the left of the bullet.

Thanks.

Antonio Nunes

On Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 1:17:13 AM UTC-6 Julian Smart wrote:

[Julian Smart]

Sorry about the delay, Google Groups marked the post as spam.

Left indent should work but only when specified in a particular Level, not the overall list style.

Failing that, it's worth checking that "Use default list indentation" is cleared for the configuration you're using.

Regards,

Julian

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[Antonio Nunes]

I must be missing something.

I checked  "Use default list indentation" and it's turned off.

When editing the list style, the only place I can see that I can set indentation is in the "Indents & Spacing" tab. But there is nothing there to set list level, so no way that I can see to specify "in a particular Level, not the overall list style." At any rate, I tried to set the "left" and "Left (first line)" indents and there was no difference on the output (using Adobe Digital Editions). I opened the epub with "Examine epub", and the indent values I set are nowhere in the style sheet or the html page where the styled text exists.

[Julian Smart]

Hi Antonio,

If you edit a list style, as opposed to a paragraph style (that may be masquerading as a list style by having 'List' in its name) there's an Indents & Spacing tab, and then there's a List Style tab. You need to click on List Style, which shows bullet and spacing settings for the currently selected level. Click on the Spacing sub-tab to see the settings for that list level.

Regards,

Julian

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[Antonio Nunes]

The "Spacing" tab next to "Bullet Style"! For some reason, no matter how long I looked at that window, I just didn't notice that tab. I knew I was missing something!

Thank you!

Antonio Nunes